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Defense One's Meghann Myers and Lauren C. Williams. -
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U.S. Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George, interviewed by Defense One’s Patrick Tucker.Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, here.
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U.S. Space Force commander Gen. Chance Saltzman, interviewed by Defense One’s Audrey Decker.Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, running through the end of March, here.
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U.S. Air Force commander Gen. David Allvin, interviewed by Defense One’s Audrey Decker.Catch our full State of Defense agenda and future events, running through the end of March, here.
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Our annual State of Defense interview series begins with a commandant working to balance crisis response and modernization. Learn more about that series here.
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U.S. Army Col. Joshua Glonek, commander 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.Related reading:
"How two units are learning from each other as the Army moves to modernize," from Sam Skove reporting in October; "Army embraces Ukraine-style warfare with new all-drone unit," also via Skove, reporting from Louisiana's Fort Johnson in September; And in reruns there is "Defense One Radio, Ep. 161: A trip to Louisiana with the Army’s new recon unit," featuring Skove speaking about his trip to Louisiana. -
Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel discusses his how his service's modernization strategy will shape the future of air combat in an increasingly complex security landscape.
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Air Force Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel, director of Force Design, Integration and Wargaming at Air Force Futures; he's interviewed by Defense One air warfare reporter Audrey Decker.Related viewing:
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Patrick Tucker describes a Defense Department in transition as Russia's Ukraine invasion approaches the four-year mark.
Related reading:
"Ukraine military-aid donors aim to set Kyiv up through 2027, Pentagon says," Tucker reported on January 7; And "Kyiv’s donors set production goals to regularize arms donations to Ukraine," he reported two days later. -
We listen back on more than a dozen guests from conversations across 2024.
Guests (in order):
Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies; Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America"; Karolina Hird, analyst and Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War; Elliot Ackerman, co-author of "2054: A Novel"; Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness; Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chris Blattman, economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, and author of the 2022 book, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace"; Mick Ryan, retired Australian Army major general, strategist, and author of “White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan"; Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, and author of “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century"; Sam Skove, former Defense One staff writer; Mark Montgomery, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation; Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura; And Brent Sadler, retired Navy captain and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. -
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Audrey Decker, aerospace reporter for Defense One; Patrick Tucker, science and technology editor at Defense One.Related reading:
Some Republicans remain unsold on Hegseth Russia in talks to send fighter jets to North Korea, INDOPACOM says ‘Multi-headed monster’: Biden, Trump officials address China-Russia-Iran coordination ‘Shock the system’: Startups and DOGE take over Reagan forum Defense officials hopeful incoming administration keeps funding cutting-edge tech -
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Brian Potter, Senior Infrastructure Fellow at the Institute for Progress and author of "Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?" from September 2024; And Nicole Foy, ProPublica’s Ancil Payne Fellow, writing on immigration and labor; her report "An Immigrant Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing" was published in October 2024.And don't miss our complementary podcast episode, "How U.S. Navy shipbuilding sank so low."
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Guests:
Matthew Paxton, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America; Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.; Ret. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation; And Ret. Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.Sources and additional reading:
Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF); U.S. Navy budget materials; "Navy adds $1B to unconventional effort to boost sub production," by Lauren Williams, reporting Sept. 2024; Defense Department's 2024 Defense Industrial Base strategy; And "Restoring Our Maritime Strength: An agenda for the next president’s first hundred days," by Brent Sadler and Jerry Hendrix, writing in the National Review in late October. -
A decorated Marine veteran and a video game maker revisit one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history.
Guests:
Elliot Ackerman, author and contributing writer at The Atlantic; Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura; And Defense One science and tech editor Patrick Tucker.Sources and additional reading:
"Goodbye, My Brother," by Elliot Ackerman, writing for Esquire on March 23, 2017; The video game "Six Days in Fallujah"; "Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks," a satirical video produced in January 2011 by The Onion; "Virtual reality exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a meta-analysis," published August 2019 in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology; "Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder," published April 2020 in the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience; And "Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach," published June 2023 in Healthcare. -
A retired U.S. admiral shares what he learned from a recent trip to the wartorn country.
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Mark Montgomery, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. -
Defense One staff summarize the leading developments from this year's Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington.
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Sam Skove, staff reporter; Patrick Tucker, science and tech editor.Find Defense One's complete AUSA coverage here.
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Audrey Decker explains some of the top developments out of this year's AFA conference outside Washington.
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Audrey Decker, Defense One’s air warfare reporter.Extra reading:
China’s aggressive regional moves open doors for the US, PACAF chief says Air Force wants NGAD to cost no more than an F-35. Is that even possible? Lessons from Ukrainian F-16 crash will shape US training: Air Force general Air Force’s Ospreys will return to forward-deployment within 'weeks' Test B-21 flying up to twice a week, Northrop reports -
Patrick Tucker unpacks findings from his recent trip to Prague for the 2024 Global Security Conference.
Related reading:
"European officials vow to boost defense production, but some worry it won’t be enough," by Patrick Tucker, reporting August 30 from Prague; "The big loophole allowing Russia to access US chips? China," by Tucker again, reporting from Washington on September 11; And "EU competitiveness: Looking ahead," a report published this week by Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank. -
The Army just put a new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test at Fort Johnson. Sam Skove explains what he saw during a recent week long demonstration.
You can read more from Sam's coverage of this Army exercise here.
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We revisit some of the bigger takeaways from this year’s Farnborough International Airshow.
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Dan Darling, vice president of market insights at Forecast International, a research and consulting firm owned by Defense One's parent company.You can see all of our Farnborough Airshow coverage, here.
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We conclude our 2024 Tech Summit coverage with an interview featuring DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins.
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Stefanie Tompkins, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.You can see all of our interviews from the 2024 Tech Summit at Defense One's YouTube page, here.
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